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Daniel Deronda (1876)
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It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.
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Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought.
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There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
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Heat is a great agent and a useful word, but considered as a means of explaining the universe, it requires an extensive knowledge of differences..
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The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
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If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
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I told her it was not quite en règle to bring one so far out of our own set; but she said, 'Genius itself is not en règle; it comes into the world to make new rules.'
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavor to its one roast with the burned souls of many generations.
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The gods have a curse for him who willingly tells another the wrong road.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return...
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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And the intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
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Born:
November 22, 1819
Died:
December 22, 1880
(aged 61)
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